Eine fatale Affäre - Forbidden Dreams

This film begins with a bored housewife by the name of "Laura Halpern" (Sarah Butler) starting to suspect that her husband "Greg Halpern" (Peter Benson) is having an affair with his secretary "Hannah Jonkins" (Lucie Guest). At around the same time, she meets a young man named "Elliott Graverston" (Marcus Rosner) who agrees to work as a handyman on a project in her kitchen. One thing eventually leads to another, and Laura has an affair with him which she quickly comes to regret. Unfortunately, Elliott doesn't particularly respond well to her request to break things off between them and things quickly take a turn for the worse from that point on. Now, rather than reveal any more, I will just say that this was one of those films that relied upon both suspense and eroticism but, because of it's made-for-television format, was somewhat limited in that regard. It does, however, feature a good performance by Sarah Butler who definitely stood out from all of the other actors. That being said, however, she wasn't quite able to overcome the rather mediocre plot and for that reason I have rated this movie accordingly. Slightly below average.

Our world seems to thrive on making stupid movies with even stupider lead women. Walk away, walk away!

.....at the end of one of these "same old, same old" movies, the husband were to be seen packing his clothes and telling his cheating wife that he could no longer be married to her, as he had no trust in her and no respect for her. At least that would be a non-predictable ending.

Having watched the entire film to see how it ends I can only say the film started off lousy and only progressed downward from an already lousy beginning. I don't care if the actors/actresses agreed to work for free, and the director picked up this script from the "Buy 1 and get 3 scripts free" bin this is just so boring that I cannot pick out even one scene where the dialogue was worthy to be edited in.

Who would even accept responsibility for putting their career ending name to this piece of junk? The film genre is listed as a Thriller much like the (1987) Fatal Attraction was which includes a love triangle that goes terribly wrong where the innocent and unsuspecting spouse is threatened by the unscrupulous scorned third party lover. Sound familiar? Well "Infidelity In Suburbia" is the end result of one person watching the original (1987) Fatal Attraction, and passing the film content by word of mouth from a first person 1 through person 1,000 and what you have left of a half decent film is this diluted piece of junk.

The ending if I told you what happened, would not be considered a spoiler, because the entire film is spoiled from beginning to end. After investing 90 minutes just to watch a terrible ending that I would rather have washed the dinner dishes and thrown out the garbage instead of wasting my time watching this garbage.

I give it two thumbs down because I only have two thumbs.

Although I have to admit, I don't even remember where he was staying at. And this is a TV movie, believe there is nothing that will surprise you. Well unless you include certain acting choices I guess. Since this was made for TV there is also no racy stuff never mind anything explicit like nudity. Just pointing this out, in case anyone thought otherwise.

This should not play a role in how much you enjoy this or rather in this case do not enjoy watching it. Some odd editing choices make certain scenes and the acting seem more wooden than it probably is (no pun intended). Ms. Butler is pretty and the infidelity predator is too. So while it lacks other qualities, maybe you like looking at good looking people